TEMPORARY WARRIOR, WW II MEMOIR is the author's account of his WW II experience from joining the Enlisted Reserve Corps until the end of the war in 1945. The book cover is a photo of 103rd Division monument at the Texas Visitor Center on I-35 near the Oklahoma border. A friend's hand is on my shoulder.In 1942, as a freshman at Tulsa University I joined the Enlisted Reserve Corps. Within a few months I began three months of Infantry training. After that I went to the Army Specialize...

For two years, Jeff Blake worked on a Ph. D. dissertation dealing with the mathematics of time travel. Being unable to complete it, he changed his college major and obtained an advanced degree in math education. Then In August, 2013, he and his wife, Joanne, who was a pharmacist, begin a flight from Tulsa, Oklahoma to Castchanotsha, Michigan in a fifty year-old Piper Cherokee Jeff had inherited from his grandfather. With them are their children, ten year-old Jim and 12 year-old daughter, M...

A meteor is about to destroy the planet Entamida, a light year from Earth. A human population has existed there for untold centuries. Gano and Elantra were bought as infants by Tyre from a business that sold reproducing human clones. Tyre and wife, Loua, raised the couple, educated them and hired them out. Elantra is a mathematician working in space science and is a space ship instructor. Gano is a doctor and an archeologist. They have two children, Lee, age 14 and Broni, 12.Elantr...

Brad Williams is a young Auto Mechanics teacher at a Vo Tech in Oklahoma City. Older but attractive Oklahoma History teacher, Jewel Nicholson, annoys him with her giggling and unwanted attentions. After an unknown girl thumbs a ride, he's on his front walk when a large hailstone hits him above the temple. He's only partially conscious, when Ozod, an invisible, bumbling, interstitial entity, offers to save him from the deadly hail by sending him back in time to get him under a roof.L...

We begin with stories Billy has heard about events in his parent's lives before he was born: His father Frank Grinnell, an aviation enthusiast in Topeka, Kansas, built and flew planes before marrying Marie MacConnell, Billy's mother. He has both the first aircraft license and first pilot's license in Kansas.They marry and go to Hollywood, where she works in a photographer's studio and he works in a garage, repairing tires and rebuilding batteries. On weekends he barnstorms, flying ...

A university graduate assistant, Greg Stevens,studying physics, learns that a giant meteor he has been tracking is going to cross the moon's orbit. It actually hits the moon, slowing it and shattering it into small rocks and dust, which fall to Earth. During the twenty-eight day spiraling descent of the debris, Greg fills his pre-WWII fallout shelter with whatever he thinks might help him survive the confluence.He emerges months later to find a moutainous moonscape around him. A fe...

My War is a blunt, funny, idiosyncratic account of Andy Rooney's World War II. As a young, naïve correspondent for The Stars and Stripes, Rooney flew bomber missions, arrived in France during the D-Day invasion, crossed the Rhine with the Allied forces, traveled to Paris for the Liberation, and was one of the first reporters into Buchenwald. Like so many of his generation, Rooney's life was changed forever by the war. He saw life at the extremes of human experience, and w...

Enhanced CoreView Digital Edition With Video LinksEddie Rickenbacker was a self-made man who became an ace in every field he touched from car racing and shooting down 26 German fighters from the Red Baron's squadron in just six months during World War I to building an automobile company and developing Eastern Airlines into the nation's fourth largest airline. He owned Indianapolis speedway dallied with movie stars broke land and air speed and endurance records and made Eastern Airli...

Uncle John will get your motor running with this all-new edition dedicated to cars, trucks, trains, buses, motorcycles, mopeds, roller coasters...and of course, the Wienermobile.Uncle John has the need…for speed! (But he always uses his turn signal.) Hop on in and let the Bathroom Readers’ Institute take you on the ultimate road trip. From the first motorized vehicles to the flying cars of tomorrow, you’ll race around the world to learn about some great sets of whe...

Casey Hasey takes you onboard as you live the life of flying in a B-26 Bomber through death defying missions where on some days many did not return. Experience the thrill of D-Day, the Little Blitz, the war through occupied France and into Hitlers Germany. Both on the ground with the locals finding ways to survive and in the air, Casey makes you feel like you are right there beside him. This book should be a movie, it has everything.

Ernie Pyle’s writings about Soldiers during World War II were always an inspiration during my career as a feature broadcaster and writer. Full of flavor about “GI” life, I followed Mr. Pyle’s example of accompanying Soldiers during training and participating as much as possible. This magic formula never failed to promote understanding and appreciation of the demands and sacrifice of Soldier life. Hearing first hand accounts of the Pearl Harbor attack and the Doolittle Raid that followed; w...

Sergeant Beasley: Memoirs of a WWII P.O.W. is a compilation of the memories of Sergeant Charles Palmer Beasley. It chronicles his life from youth in the hills of Crawford County, Indiana to the Civilian Conservation Corps to the Army Air Corps and as a prisoner of war at the Keifheide (Stalag Luft IV) P.O.W. camp in Germany. Sergeant Beasley spent time at Fort Knox, Esler Field and Fort Dix before being sent overseas to Membry Airfield in Berkshire, England. After training at Eastbourne in...